SUBWAY MYSTERY (Iranian diplomats videotaping subway)

New York Post ^ | 11/18/03 | MURRAY WEISS

[kattracks]

November 18, 2003 -- Two Iranian diplomats who arrived in New York recently to work at their country's U.N. mission are being investigated by the FBI after a transit cop caught them videotaping the subway in Queens, The Post has learned. The sharp-eyed officer spotted the suspicious pair entering the elevated station at Roosevelt Avenue and 52nd Street in Woodside at 1:30 a.m. Sunday and shooting tape in various directions as they waited for a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train.

[toomuchcoffee]

This is an excellent reason to locate the UN in france.

[shhrubbery!]

Speaking of Iran...News.SCOTSMAN.com: "SYNAGOGUE SUICIDE BOMBER TRAINED IN IRAN

That's because it isn't so gemütlich for them in Iraq anymore.

[gitmogrunt]

Couldn't Mayor Bloomberg find some friendly New Yawkers to tie them to the rails and have the E-train ride over them?

[True Capitalist]

THE SEVEN! ...that's my train

[P.O.E.]

Ping

[NYC GOP Chick]

LOL! But seriously, I guess it's a good thing that nobody saw me taking some still photos and video in the WTC station a couple of months ago...

[MontanaBeth]

Send them packing. Put a new tape in their camera, with a bunch of American's "pointing" the way to Iran.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Couldn't Mayor Bloomberg find some friendly New Yawkers to tie them to the rails and have the E-train ride over them?"

Yo, John Rocker, these wogs called you a pussy!

[xkaydet65]

That's home turf for me, so I don't know what these guys would be targeting.The Seven train could be a target, but they'd kill more muslims than anything else.The Woodside area is polyglot. The local jr. high has 60 languages. The station at 52nd st does not offer any special view. Stops like Rawson and Bliss street have clearer views of the City.
It's an interesting case, but i don't see it as alarming. Good for the cop though. NYPD on the job.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Calpernia]

Should this go with the Iranian news you thread?

[ChefKeith]

Good job Officer.

Screw their D.I., pull the credentials and if they don't like that then shoot them on site, package the bodies in pork fat and return them to ragheadland.

[sarasmom]

Sad news that a throwaway isn't used for it's honorable intended purpose in NYC in a time of war against a self declared enemy.
Sigh.
/sarcasm- ? barely//

[firebrand]

You've been reading Tom Clancy!

[Calpernia]

There was also a thread with M.E. men video taping a girls school. I think it was in MD.

[lavrenti]

Sounds to me like they were shooting sight lines.

About the WTC station, do still get creeped out by the walled-up area at the south end of the E train station? You know it led directly to the mall, and the escalators through Borders.

Also, the "WTC Newsstand" sign.

[pete anderson]

I hate the Seven Train. Everytime I have used it to go to LI City the AC is broken.

[Newbomb Turk]

Throw em under the train. Diplomatic immunity that suckers.

The least we could have done is offered them a first classed mugging.

[Monti Cello]

I hope the relevant national leaders (Iran, Syria, etc.) have been warned that if anything big happens, that their existence will rapidly tend toward nonexistence.

[NYC GOP Chick]

What do you mean by sight lines? I'd put up my subway footage, but I don't want the cops coming here and taking me away. ;)

Yes, I get kind of creeped out in there -- just by the name of the damn station. I mean, why can't they change it to Vesey Street Station, or something like that? The newsstand sign is positively macabre.